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Although seeing as Hodgson has only been Eagles boss for about six weeks that might not quite be as reliable source as first though.

"Both president Steve Parish and Roy Hodgson have long been telling me about Ozan and have seen him in many games, including national team games. They will prepare an offer for Fenerbahce," Karaman said.

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Tufan, who is under contract until June 2020 and is thought to be worth in excess of £10million, has already played 31 times for the national team despite his young years, scoring four goals, and has netted three times for Fener this season in eight league games.

Hodgson, meanwhile, admitted last week that Sporting Director Dougie Freemdan is working on getting a list of targets for January already.

He said: "I think Doug Freedman, since he was brought into the club a couple of weeks before they brought me in to the club, has been working on that already. I think he is working on meeting with our current scouting set up and people we use.

Tufan could be a replacement for Cabaye in midfield

"He's starting to collate information they’ve obviously been collecting for other managers and then he intends to sit down with me and the owners of the club and we’ll see what is possible to do.

"But yes, the January transfer window will be an important transfer window, not just for Crystal Palace, but also probably for another half dozen clubs who like ourselves, find themselves staring at the abyss that relegation these days is."

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"I think we have got a group of players here who will be good enough to keep us in the league if we can keep performing and use these 29 games to the best of our advantage.

"But to really be sure that we will give ourselves a chance, we certainly do need some reinforcements because the squad doesn’t go down anywhere near far enough in my opinion to give me the type of options I would like when it comes to putting a team on the field.

"It's all very well having the same team playing in two matches and doing pretty well in those two matches, but that can’t carry on for 29 matches."